Events

The Footing was launched at The Shakespeare, Sheffield on 25 November 2013 with a specially-devised presentation featuring projections, readings, audio works and discussions. Click here to view a selection of photographs from the launch.

On 1 March 2014, Fay Musselwhite led Contra Flow, a specially-devised walk through the Rivelin Valley (on the edge of the Peak District), exploring the sites of her poems in The Footing, and tracing the river’s industrial legacy, its unique ecology, and its relationship to the city of Sheffield. Click here to view a selection of photographs from the walk; click here to read Musselwhite’s reflections on the walk (the essay includes a further selection of photos and recordings of Musselwhite reading her poems).

On 14 June 2014 at Sheffield’s Bank Street Arts, Angelina Ayers, James Caruth, Mark Goodwin, Rob Hindle, Andrew Hirst, Chris Jones and Fay Musselwhite performed Pilgrimage, a crafted, continuous presentation of poems from The Footing, with the accent on memory and memorial. Click here to listen to the Pilgrimage recordings.

More events will be scheduled for 2015; further details will be posted here in the near future.